Pirate Kitty:Oh, how dare I not know what goes on in America. Heaven forbid that countries custom not be endorsed by all others!

Oh, how dare you use a aggressive tone because you're lost on a comic storyline, while sneaking in a remark about the country!

For those who don't understand, Black Friday is a day after Thanksgiving where most stores have major sales. This causes a lot of people to attend. A lot of people attending wanting to get into a store. Thus in return a simple delayed opening can make a LOT of unhappy people. Case in point, I believe it was two years ago when a young employee at a major store (I forgot which store) was trying to help prepare things while the store was about to open. People outside waited all day and didn't want to wait anymore, they burst through the store when it was finally opened, trampling the young man to death, while they continued shopping.

It's a stupid ploy by the companies here, and anyone who part-takes must be seriously desperate for the sale or crazy to risk themselves in such situations, because no sane person would go for a regular shopping day on Black Friday.

Celtic_Kerr:The sad part is I forgot it was black friday once, and for some reason Americans tend to think that Canada has Thanksgiving at the sametime. He have it in early-mid October. Well a bunch of Americans came to Canada for fuck-know-why, and the game stores we LITERAL stampedes. THere was elbowing, kicking, shoving, and I think I saw a headbutt... Just to make sure no one stepped anywhere near the game you MAYBE POTENTIALLY want

Celtic_Kerr:The sad part is I forgot it was black friday once, and for some reason Americans tend to think that Canada has Thanksgiving at the sametime. He have it in early-mid October. Well a bunch of Americans came to Canada for fuck-know-why, and the game stores we LITERAL stampedes. THere was elbowing, kicking, shoving, and I think I saw a headbutt... Just to make sure no one stepped anywhere near the game you MAYBE POTENTIALLY want

aren't...things cheaper in the states???

edit: americans are confusing

Yes, things are cheaper in the states, hence Canadians going to the states to buy things on black friday during a massive sale, because then it's EVEN CHEAPER. So Canadian businesses throw a sale of their own, to get profit that would have been spent on American products.

As someone who worked in retail for nine years, I can only say... that the girl on the left is not NEARLY armored enough.

Folks, the reason it's called "Black Friday" is because it's usually the first day of the fiscal year that most retailers get "in the black" (recording a profit, rather than "in the red", losing money). The one-upsmanship that major retailer chains pull on each other has gotten so ridiculous in recent years that, combined with a waning sense of community and rising greed in the majority of shoppers, having incidents like the Wal-Mart trampling mentioned above is only going to become more prevalent, rather than less.

Myself, I am going to do my utmost to not set foot inside a store (aside from grocery shopping and necessary items) between now and Christmas. It's just too insane.

Heh, yeah. Anyone who has worked at a gaming store, or retail in general really, will understand this. I basically spend the day cowering in the corner whenever I was forced to work Black Friday. So glad I don't work at Bestbuy anymore!

Oh, how dare I not know what goes on in America. Heaven forbid that countries custom not be endorsed by all others!

Speaking as an American, one of our biggest faults is that we forget that America is not the entire world. i.e., we forget that other countries have different customs. That is until we want to make fun of them.

Another point is that, unless somebody is clearly typing in another language, to us English implies you're American. There are no accents online, so it's quite an easy mistake really.

But yeah....I have worked in retail on Black Friday in the past. The memories still haunt me. I had to come in at 11:00 PM the night before to open at 1:00 AM. When I came in I literally had to push people in tents out of the way of the door.

A friend of mine, he's 6'5", got trampled and knocked down by a short elderly woman at a Target one year, after which a number of people literally tried to walk on him. His girlfriend had to yell to get people off of him so he stand up again. If you've ever wanted to see people at their most dip-shit behavior (apart from Glenn Beck rallies) this is the day.